To do a thing willingly from a delight in doing it, will effect a change in you. And when you begin to take up your own "cross"—that is, the burden of some difficult thing in yourself that you have at last come to observe—and do it in such a spirit, then you will get results.

It is only through some kind of delight, some feeling of joy or pleasure or some genuine affection or desire, that you can work and bring about any change of being in yourself. Fear, for example, will not act in this way.

For the Work to enter, you must invite it and agree with it and will it, and treat it internally with the highest consideration and the greatest courtesy and with true delight. I have said to you elsewhere that will is delight.